Is the ‘Delta Variant’ a Hoax?

[BIAD]

"Science" used to start with a question, and then through experimentation come to a conclusion that answered it.
Since the Left took over science, now it starts with the answer, and tries to find enough supporting evidence - even if they have
to make it up - to confirm that preconceived conclusion. It's exactly bass ackwards now...

... but Psychology has ALWAYS been like that.

I will also note that there is an old saying regarding Professors - "Them that can, do. Them that can't, teach."

Under Socialist and Communist regimes, EVERYTHING is colored by the edicts of the Party. "Scientists" must find "conclusions"
that support the edicts of the Party. Therefore, the politics of a communist "scientist" are ALWAYS relevant to their conclusions.

Especially the fakest scientists, Psychologists. It was entirely proper to question just how much the Party had colored Ms. Michie's
conclusions. Personally, I would have also gone even further, and questioned her credentials and expertise to assess concrete
questions when her "science" is not a concrete science.

Instead, the person questioning her politics and qualifications got dog piled by commie-bots, all in an effort to make the general
public think that it thinks other than how it does. Classic...

It's a terrible realisation when you see the whole chess board and have to decide whether some people have been duped
into believing the words of today's version of 'Polito-science' or are small deliberate cogs in the scheme to bring the public
to heel. 

I've seen such behaviour in my past and it's a real eye-opener. People that you accept as fairly trustworthy, who you work
with and occasionally spend time with outside of the employment realm.  Many years ago, the company I worked for decided
to use a business called 'Winning Edge' an agency that explains stuff that I'd expect any average adult would already understand.

£300 ($413)-per-head bought you a couple of hours of one's employees sitting in a room listening to some dick-head asking
stupid questions whilst pointing at a whiteboard. Questions like: if there were a million bucks on the other-side of a ravine and
the only way across was a four-inch wide plank, would you dare cross and what would sort of mind-set would you require?!

When my Manager (I was working at a desk then) came to me and told me it was my turn to listen to this foolishness, I told him no.
I'd known him for years and even though I'd accepted his incorrect perception about me when I was emptying trash, etc during
my time as a Janitor, I'd always thought he'd never considered me as a ignoramus.

Then other work colleagues appeared and ask me why I refused to go. It was time away from work -usually a notion that would
cater for the most reluctant of employees. Was the concept to high to grasp..? one guy asked me and again, I put his question
down to to his preconceived assumption that anyone who cleans out toilets and empty trash cans is somehow feebleminded.

At one point, four people -a quartet of folks I'd considered as amicable co-workers, stood around me with requests to explain
my refusal. So I told them.

I explained that I didn't enjoy wasting my time on fundamentals that -really, any decent parent would have already given to their
offspring during their growth. I explained that during this time that the company was uncertain of its future -and even though this
may indirectly or directly effect my own time with them, I believed it was an avoidable waste of resources that may impact all
of us in that department.

There were other reasons, but my main concern were their concerns on my veto to attend the in-house venue.
I asked them why they put so-much store in my unwillingness to 'join in' with their group-think, why a business like 'Winning Edge'
would cater for them individually or as a group and what possible knowledge I could gain at my time of life that would enhance
my position in a company on the edge of selling itself to another or even just closing.

It arose later that this 'success-orientated attitude' business was denied by the company that eventually purchased us.
The reasons...? because those who'd heavily invested in the newly-purchased newspaper found it a waste of time and money.
 Go figure!

But that one question remained unanswered. Why did these work-colleagues look at me as an outcast from their thinking in
a situation that didn't -in my opinion, require such examination?

I can only thank BIAD for his wise words that he once imparted to me:
"The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity with which others are trying to prove
him wrong."

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Keeping with the idea of a a single-voice singing a united narrative, I'll use Ninurta's comment of: 'In other news'!

In other news, The BBC interviewed someone from the directorate -that used to fund them, on the latest news about
the sniffles-plague. I don't have a cell-phone (gah!) and therefore unfamiliar with its uses. But I do know its generally
used as a camera. (I'm talking about you, TikTok)

I had heard about some miracle software program called an 'App', but I had no idea how invasive they can be.
The article below told me that the National Health Service App (that's not what it is, but that's the bullshit-name they're
going with) is to be altered due to the 19th July lifting of the Covid-connected restrictions in England.

But the explanation to what this computer program does left me speechless...! I mean, it's basically a dog-collar that
a user voluntarily fastens down their liberty with! The Mitchie-psychologist-woman must be rubbing her thighs in
excitement at the Pavlov-esque experiment!
Take a read.

NHS Covid app may change as rules change, Grant Shapps says

'The NHS Covid contact tracing app used in England and Wales may need to change as coronavirus restrictions change,
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said. England ending the 1m-plus rule on 19 July may mean the app's sensitivity needs
to be reduced, he said.


Grant Shapps... Secretary of State for Transport. Which makes him a Covid expert.


The app detects the distance between users and the length of time spent in close proximity - currently 2m or less and more
than 15 minutes. It comes amid a huge rise in alerts as infections surge.

The system allows people who test positive to anonymously share their test result, triggering alerts for those detected as close
contacts in the days before the test. Under current rules, those who receive an alert are asked to stay at home for up to 10 days,
although the Department of Health said the app "is, and always has been, advisory" - unlike the requirement to isolate if you are
contacted directly by NHS Test and Trace.

Coronavirus restrictions are set to end on 19 July but the requirement to self-isolate if you have had both vaccine doses will only
stop on 16 August, raising fears that millions of people would be asked to self-isolate this summer as people mixed more.
The hospitality industry and NHS trusts have warned MPs the knock-on effect for the economy and workplaces could be huge.


An explanation how the App works. Thank you BBC, yes... we're all ten years-old.
(Gawd, I love the running 'diversity' narrative that is endemic in the state-owned broadcaster!
Ginger-haired, 'people of colour', only one woman wearing a dress and no rendering of an old
person!)

One possible solution could be to change the sensitivity of the app, so it would tell people to self-isolate only after closer and
more prolonged contact. But sources at the app developers told the BBC they have not yet been asked to do this, although
they are planning a change from 16 August when people would be able to record that they were fully vaccinated to turn off the
self-isolation alerts.

Mr Shapps told BBC Breakfast: "As our restrictions change, of course the app needs to change. Things like replacing the 1m-plus
rule on 19 July might well lead to a review of the way the app itself needs to function." But he said the app was still "very important
as one of the tools in our armoury".

He said there were still large numbers of people downloading it and said he had not seen any data showing people were deleting it.
The most recent figures for the last week of June show an extra 300,000 downloads, bringing the total to more than 26 million, but it
is not known how many people are active users.
"It's in our interests as a society to carry on doing the things that protect each other," Mr Shapps said.

Dr Jenny Harries, the head of the new UK Health Security Agency, told MPs on Thursday that she was "aware that people are choosing
not to use the app" when asked about concerns people have been deleting it to avoid being "pinged". "We are seeing a rise in cases
so this is not an inconvenience, it's actually to alert people to the fact that they have been in close contact and that they may be at risk
of being infected themselves and passing that infection on to other people," she said.

Hinting at a change, she added there was "work ongoing at the moment because it is entirely possible to tune the app to ensure that
it is appropriate to the risk". A source close to Health Secretary Sajid Javid told the BBC "we are looking at the sensitivity of the app"
and pointed out the sensitivity had been changed before.

But they did not say exactly what would change. At present, if two phones running the app are close for long enough, and one of the two
users later shares a positive coronavirus test via the app, then the other will receive an alert. You can also use the app to "check-in" to
venues so you can be notified of any positive cases you may have encountered there, although the requirement to check-in will be lifted
in England when lockdown rules ease further on 19 July.

Just 496 venue alerts - which use the check-in data to alert people to potential contact with a positive case - were sent between 24 June
and 30 June. But alerts for people coming into close contact with someone testing positive soared by more than 60% in the last week of
June to 360,000.
At the end of May, there were only 16,000 alerts in a week.

A BBC analysis has estimated 4.5 million people could be asked to self-isolate between this week and 16 August, as the number of
infections continues to rise. The NHS Covid-19 app is used in England and Wales. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their
own powers to set coronavirus regulations and separate test-and-trace programmes...'

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